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I woke up to an absolutely beautiful morning from my home in Cedar Crest.
It had literally rained all night, and the mountains were glistening.

I reluctantly went down the hill to Albuquerque, as I entered the Rio Grande Valley, I immediately noticed that the high desert had come alive! Wow, the rains had changed everything! There were so many colors, shades and it just felt clean. This made it very hard to leave New Mexico.

I dropped both of my bikes off at my office, deciding against trying to ship the vintage road bike to my home in Iowa.

After returning my rental car, I was able to hop on an early flight to Denver, but learned that I had an unexpected late flight to Cedar Rapids from Denver. This ended up affording me nearly 4.5 hours of lay over time in Denver. I got somewhat bored, but took it as an opportunity to read and relax with my iPad.

I did learn that the wireless receiver in the iPad seems to be very finicky, it did not manage to use the free wireless at DIA from the iPad, my Droid and MacBook Pro had no trouble at all, so I am not certain why the iPad struggled. Thus, I need to research this and figure it out, as I would like to eventually NOT have to travel with a laptop, as the iPad seems ideal for short trips.

When I finally made it to Cedar Rapids at 830pm, I rushed home, changed and hung out with Matt. We watched the majority of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which is based on the Stieg Larsson book. I liked it, but we both decided it was better for me to read the book, the movie just moved too fast to catch all of the needed details to understand what was going on. Matt and did manage to split a Marble Reserve. Wow that is a good beer. I do think I prefer it though in colder weather, it was nice to share it nonetheless.

The day ended well as it had started.